lapicide

English

Etymology

From Latin lapicida. Compare -cide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæpɪsaɪd/

Noun

lapicide (plural lapicides)

1. A stonecutter.
   • 2003, Adam Łajtar et al., Catalogue of the Greek inscriptions in the Sudan National Museum at Khartoum‎^[1]:

     Letters omitted by the lapicide or evident mistakes of the lapicide corrected by the editor.

   • 1996, John Percival Postgate, Edward Vernon Arnold, Frederick William Hall, Classical quarterly‎^[2]:

     […] made by Wosnick several decades ago, that the name M. Silanus Murena is the result of a lapicide's error and that this part of the inscription was […]

   • 1959, British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Anatolian studies‎^[3]:

     One or two cracks in the rock have been avoided by the lapicide.

Translations

stonecutter

• French: lapicide (fr) m or f

Anagrams

• elapidic

French

Etymology

From Latin lapicida.

Noun

lapicide m or f by sense (plural lapicides)

1. lapicide

Further reading

• “lapicide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.